Brian Lavelle has movedJun 12, 2025

“Read between the lines.”

Spent a lovely evening listening to Frances Wilson in conversation with Simon Cooke about her new biography, Electric Spark: The Enigma of Muriel Spark. She was so enthused and passionate about Spark’s ciphered life, her sixth sense, and of how a writer’s imagination is shaped and refined, I wanted to start reading her book as soon as I got home, and to delve back into Spark’s novels.

#MurielSpark #FrancesWilson #Bookstodon

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And still on Muriel Spark, this event in Edinburgh in June looks like a must.

#MurielSpark #Biography #FrancesWilson #ElectricSpark

https://www.toppingbooks.co.uk/events/edinburgh/frances-wilson-muriel-spark/

Electric Spark: the Enigma of Muriel Spark with Frances Wilson at Pilrig St. Paul's Church

Andrew ShieldsAug 31, 2023
Kafka writing “in einem Zug”: not “on a train” but “at a stretch” or “in one go”. #111Words #FranzKafka #InEinemZug #DasUrteil #Tagebücher #Diaries #RossBenjamin #FrancesWilson #NewYorkReviewOfBooks https://andrewjshields.blogspot.com/2023/08/kafka-writing-in-einem-zug-not-on-train.html
Kafka writing “in einem Zug”: not “on a train” but “at a stretch” or “in one go"

On 23 September 1912, Franz Kafka wrote in his diary about writing "Das Urteil" the night before "in einem Zug". In Ross Benjamin's new Engl...